Winslet latest victim of "Fakebooking" craze

Kate Winslet and Angelina Jolie, the Oscar nominated actresses, have become the latest victims of the "Fakebooking" trend.

False sites in Miss Winslet's name have overtaken the number created for Britney SpearsPhoto: Paul Grover

7:15AM GMT 22 Feb 2009

Miss Winslet, who is tipped to win the best actress award at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, now also has the accolade of having the most sites devoted to her by internet pranksters on the Facebook site.

One fake account, which claimed to have been set up by Miss Winslet, was closed by monitors after she called Miss Jolie a "fat-lipped crazy cow", according to the Sunday Times.

The newspaper reported that false sites in Miss Winslet's name have overtaken the number created for Britney Spears, the singer, Sarah Palin, the colourful Republican former vice-presidential candidate, and President Barack Obama.

On Friday there were still a dozen Facebook sites claiming to have been set up by Miss Winslet, several with nude photographs illegally lifted from her Oscar-nominated film The Reader.

But they were mild versions of the dozens of often libellous sites that have been removed since last weekend.

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In one, Miss Winslet appeared to be engaged in a war of words with Miss Jolie, calling her a "blood-sucking vampire".

A fake Miss Jolie responded: "Now I know why you pretended to forget my name at the Golden Globes, bitch. I'm getting out my favorite [sic] blade and I'll be waiting for you on the red, red carpet."

Some reports have claimed that up to 40 per cent of Facebook's 70 million accounts are fake.

The company has tried to clean the site up by "deauthorising" thousands of entries, in the process managing to delete a handful of genuine celebrity sites, including David Beckham's Los Angeles Galaxy account.